NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 8 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti 12 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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$ 956.47
$ 972.28 significantly less expensive
$ 1928.75

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

50 %
135 %
169% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

94 FPS
319 FPS
226 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

80 FPS
166 FPS
86 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

63 FPS
233 FPS
170 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

65 FPS
132 FPS
67 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

7547
19592
159% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

613.39
5963.52
872% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

51531
235513
357% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score
Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

54640
209081
282% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

66552
131975
98% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

47863
209081
336% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

64389
165159
156% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1607 MHz
17% slightly higher core clock speed
1370 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1733 MHz
4% slightly higher boost clock speed
1665 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

8 GiB
12 GiB
49% significantly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit
384 Bit
49% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

320.3 GB/s
912.4 GB/s
184% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

180 W
94% significantly lower TDP
350 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

110.9 Gigapixels/s
186.5 Gigapixels/s
68% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

277.3 Gigatexels/s
532.8 Gigatexels/s
92% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

8.87 TFLOPS
34.1 TFLOPS
284% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2560
10240
300% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

160
320
100% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

64
112
75% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

45th of 363
11th of 363

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

May 2016
May 2021

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5X
GDDR6X

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5
4.6

GeForce GTX 1080 vs GeForce RTX 3080 Ti specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti GPU is faster than the GeForce GTX 1080 in gaming.

In our comparison, the GeForce GTX 1080 has a slightly higher core clock speed. The core clock speed (or base speed) is the frequency at which the GPU core runs. This metric makes sense when comparing GPUs of a similar architecture or generation. In addition, the GeForce GTX 1080 also has a slightly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti has significantly more memory with 12 GiB of memory compared to 8 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 1080 has a significantly lower TDP at 180 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti at 350 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti over the GeForce GTX 1080.

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